Entry
  1. Noun

    ungen; method of dyeing in which a color repeatedly goes from dense to diffuse, diffuse to dense; used in Buddhist pictures, temple ornaments, etc., during the Nara and Heian periods

Also written 暈繝【うんげん】

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a method of dyeing

On
カンケン
Strokes
18
Radical
silk

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Dictionary and index codes (9)
CodeReference
1-6-12SKIP code
6a12.7The Kanji Dictionary
2792.0Four corner code
7e5dUnicode hex code
1-69-67JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
4589New Nelson (John Haig)
27908Morohashi
jian4Pinyin reading
ganKorean reading